U.S. election

Canadians have enough on their political plates right now without nosing into the U.S. presidential campaignm, but a poll released recently shows people in this country are thumbing their at Republican candidates. The Insights West poll noted a particularly strong distaste among British Columbians for Republican renegade Donald Trump, with 70 per cent believing a Trump victory in 2016 would be bad for Canada. Across the country, 62 per cent hold such a view.

The continuing heat and drought in British Columbia has more than a few people hot under the collar. You can’t wash your car, gardeners can’t water their lawns, and a petition has been started to stop Nestlé from using free spring water for its bottling plant in the Fraser Valley.

The cost of buying a new home in Metro Vancouver rose in January, as did the cost of doing business in B.C.This happened because of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal’s decision to impose a national tariff on rebar. Our province is collateral damage in an Eastern Canada trade dispute that has nothing to do with us.

Canada is a trading nation that is the envy of many because of the wealth of our resources and the resourcefulness of our people. Every province is formed by diverse and unique trading economies requiring diverse skilled people.

Canadian softwood lumber prices have fallen substantially in the past nine months, but that long, steady decline should end soon, according to industry analyst Hakan Ekstrom. The president of Seattle-based Wood Resources International said early signs of a resurgent U.S. housing market should boost the demand for Canadian wood.

And so, as advertised, the he becomes a she. The once-handsome, burly Olympic gold medal decathlete is now comely Caitlyn, her long curly tresses falling softly over her slim shoulders and enviable décolletage as she poses prettily in a scant one-piece corset on the July cover of Vanity Fair.

Vancouver-based Vantage Airport Group will lead a consortium that has been chosen to manage a $3.6-billion US redevelopment of New York’s LaGuardia Airport. The LaGuardia Gateway Partners consortium led by Vantage, selected as the “preferred bidder” on Thursday, will new begin detailed negotiations with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, airlines and other stakeholders to complete its development plans and determine the financial terms of the public-private partnership.

“I have something wrong with me. I’ve been seeing a neurologist. They think it may be early onset Alzheimer’s disease. I did not want to tell you because I did not know anything for sure, but I’ve been doing all these tests and I’m scared. I got lost while I was running on campus a while ago and I can’t remember appointments, words. It’s like something drops out from under me.”

The message of the acclaimed TV series True Detective is “everything is a lie, including religion, marriage, order and civility,” a reviewer says. Homeland is “a searing exploration of moral decay.” Mad Men is “drenched in narcissism and self-indulgence.” And the director of The Affair says viewers “hate” both main characters.

The email arrived this week from a Manhattan public relations agent and went something like this: “I work with Instagram’s internal PR team to identify community members who are using the photo-sharing platform in unique ways." One such account is by Vancouver-based Matija Erceg.

It is one thing to affect a high dudgeon over an affront to one’s dignity and another thing entirely to be so consumed with the need for redress that one is prepared to cut off one’s nose to spite one’s face.

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